Browsing Working papers by Author "Valsecchi, Michele"
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Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability
Valsecchi, Michele (2016-12)Modern state bureaucracies are designed to be insulated from political interference. Successful insulation implies that politicians' electoral incentives do not affect bureaucrats' corruption. I test this prediction by ... -
Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars
Valsecchi, Michele (2010-03-03)We develop a conflict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed ... -
Land Certification and International Migration: Evidence from Mexico
Valsecchi, Michele (2010-04-19)In this paper we ask whether there is a relationship between property rights and international migration. In order to identify the impact of property rights, we consider a country-wide land certi cation program, which ... -
Quantifying Ethnic Cleansing: An Application to Darfur
Olsson, Ola; Valsecchi, Michele (2010-12)This paper has two objectives: First, to develop and critically examine various measures of ethnic cleansing on the basis of a review of the existing literature. Second, to apply the suggested measures to a unique sample ... -
Resource Windfalls and Local Government Behavior: Evidence from a Policy Reform in Indonesia
Olsson, Ola; Valsecchi, Michele (2015-11)We analyze the impact of a natural experiment in Indonesia that allocated certain district governments with a windfall revenue from natural resource production. Our identification is based on a comparison between bordering ...